Stories
Data-driven stories exploring trends, comparisons, and spotlights across the entertainment landscape.
The evidence over time
Aggregated, sourced records by studio and era — the receipts, not accusations. Each links to its full cited breakdown.
Action's audience record, 1924 to 2026
Across 1924 to 2026, 3 percent of Action's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 5.2 points from 1924 to 2026. Its catalogue records 23 race-changed roles over 192…
Bad Wolf's audience record, 2019 to 2024
Across 2019 to 2024, 0 percent of Bad Wolf's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score fell 15 points from 2019 to 2024. Its catalogue records 2 race-changed roles over 201…
Columbia Pictures's audience record, 1959 to 2024
Across 1959 to 2024, 0 percent of Columbia Pictures's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 3 points from 1959 to 2024. Its catalogue records 1 race-changed roles…
Drama's audience record, 1909 to 2026
Across 1909 to 2026, 1 percent of Drama's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 12 points from 1909 to 2026. Its catalogue records 27 race-changed roles over 1909…
Fantasy's audience record, 1922 to 2026
Across 1922 to 2026, 5 percent of Fantasy's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 4.6 points from 1922 to 2026. Its catalogue records 33 race-changed roles over 19…
Gran Via Productions's audience record, 1999 to 2026
Across 1999 to 2026, 20 percent of Gran Via Productions's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 72 points from 1999 to 2026. Its catalogue records 3 race-changed r…
Romance's audience record, 1909 to 2026
Across 1909 to 2026, 1 percent of Romance's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 4.1 points from 1909 to 2026. Its catalogue records 7 race-changed roles over 190…
Temple Hill Entertainment's audience record, 2008 to 2024
Across 2008 to 2024, 0 percent of Temple Hill Entertainment's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score fell 15 points from 2008 to 2024. Its catalogue records 1 race-chang…
Universal Pictures's audience record, 1925 to 2026
Across 1925 to 2026, 2 percent of Universal Pictures's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 12.5 points from 1925 to 2026. Its catalogue records 7 race-changed ro…
YA's audience record, 2004 to 2023
Across 2004 to 2023, 25 percent of YA's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 55 points from 2004 to 2023. Its catalogue records 6 race-changed roles over 2004 to…
1492 Pictures's audience record, 2001 to 2009
Across 2001 to 2009, 0 percent of 1492 Pictures's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score fell 13 points from 2001 to 2009. Adaptations under 1492 Pictures average 89 of…
1982's audience record
Across 1982, 3 percent of 1982's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 4 race-changed roles, 2 of them rated critical over 1982. Adaptations under 1982 average 60 of 100 for…
2008's audience record
Across 2008, 0 percent of 2008's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 1 race-changed roles, 1 of them rated critical over 2008. Adaptations under 2008 average 88.3 of 100 f…
2019's audience record
Across 2019, 3 percent of 2019's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 8 race-changed roles, 4 of them rated critical over 2019. Adaptations under 2019 average 73.3 of 100 f…
2020's audience record
Across 2020, 1 percent of 2020's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 3 race-changed roles, 3 of them rated critical over 2020. Adaptations under 2020 average 69.5 of 100 f…
2021's audience record
Across 2021, 3 percent of 2021's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 10 race-changed roles, 8 of them rated critical over 2021. Adaptations under 2021 average 69.4 of 100…
2022's audience record
Across 2022, 11 percent of 2022's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 11 race-changed roles, 7 of them rated critical over 2022. Adaptations under 2022 average 66.4 of 100…
2023's audience record
Across 2023, 10 percent of 2023's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 13 race-changed roles, 10 of them rated critical over 2023. Adaptations under 2023 average 67.1 of 10…
2025's audience record
Across 2025, 2 percent of 2025's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 3 race-changed roles, 1 of them rated critical over 2025. Adaptations under 2025 average 55 of 100 for…
2026's audience record
Across 2026, 2 percent of 2026's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 10 race-changed roles, 4 of them rated critical over 2026. Adaptations under 2026 average 68 of 100 fo…
ADK's audience record, 1999 to 2015
Across 1999 to 2015, 0 percent of ADK's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score fell 9 points from 1999 to 2015. Adaptations under ADK average 90 of 100 for source faithf…
Adventure's audience record, 1925 to 2026
Across 1925 to 2026, 2 percent of Adventure's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its catalogue records 28 race-changed roles over 1925 to 2026. Adaptations under Adventure average 68.5 of 100…
The evidence on Amazon Prime Video, 1975 to 2024
Across 1975 to 2024, 100 percent of Amazon Prime Video's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 53 points from 1975 to 2024. Adaptations under Amazon Prime Video av…
Amazon Studios's audience record, 2018 to 2022
Across 2018 to 2022, 0 percent of Amazon Studios's scored titles register as message-leaning or advocacy-driven. Its average advocacy score rose 4.3 points from 2018 to 2022. Adaptations under Amazon Studios average 55.…
Calibration
Stories
Do Hollywood Studios Have an Audience, or Just a Genre Slate?
Across 270 scored films from eleven studios, the genres a studio makes explain almost all of how young or old its films read, but only part of how male or female they read
Sep 29, 2026
Film, TV or Games: Does the Medium Change Who a Title Is For?
Across 4,542 scored titles, television reads closer to gender-even than film and most of that gap survives a genre control; games read the most male, but mostly because of the genres they are made in
Sep 23, 2026
Country of Origin vs Genre: Which One Decides a Film's Audience?
Sixteen national means across 2,782 scored films look very different from one another, and most of that difference disappears the moment you compare an action film to an action film
Aug 6, 2026
Six Decades of Audience Skew: How the Movies Changed Who They're For
The gender gap peaked in the 1980s and narrowed for thirty years, while the catalog has skewed steadily younger, read across roughly 2,400 scored films
Jun 30, 2026
Faithfulness vs Advocacy: Adaptations by the Numbers
Do adaptations that lean toward a message drift further from their source? The catalog says yes on average, but the honest answer rests on very small samples
May 31, 2026
The Most Cross-Generational Movies Ever Scored
The films that play almost evenly to all four audience spheres are rarer than you would guess, and the genre that produces the most of them is a surprise
May 31, 2026
Race and Gender Swaps: What the Data Actually Shows
Across thousands of scored titles, the catalog records 31 race swaps and 2 gender swaps. Here is the full picture, with the small numbers stated plainly
May 31, 2026
Which Genres Are Most Gender-Balanced
Across 5,000 scored films, only one genre tilts female, and the most male-skewed genre is not the one most people name
May 31, 2026
How the MCU Audience Skew Shifted Across 37 Films
From a young-male baseline to a few years of experimentation and partway back, read in the sphere scores
May 31, 2026
The Most Demographically Polarizing Films of the Decade
Which 2016 to 2025 movies split the four audience spheres the hardest, and the films that did the opposite
May 31, 2026